School closure and changes in the education system caused significant impacts on families. Many families especially in low-income countries rely on schools not only for education but for programs for reading food and childcare. Some schools provide free meals for their students which are taken advantage by parents who are in poverty. Hence, school closure causes hunger to millions of children across the world. In addition, many parents are forced to leave their work as they have to take care of their young children which affects the family's income.
We saw this massive increase in women´s employment during the war. At the end of the war, those women almost universally wanted to keep their jobs - they wanted to stay in the paid workforce. But the easiest short term thing to do for the economy, once men were coming back and wanted their jobs back, was to push women back home. And this is not what many of our peer countries did.
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